Video: Train like a grandma: 98-year-old woman is India's oldest yoga instructor
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nanammal is a 98-year-old woman from India. At her venerable age, she is actively involved in yoga and, moreover, teaches yoga to over a hundred students, conducting classes every day. Her youngest student is only 6 years old, but even those who have been practicing for several years are amazed at how easily and naturally Nanammal manages to perform movements that are difficult even for those who are much younger than her.
Perhaps, Nanammal (Nanammal) and is not the oldest yoga teacher in the world (American Tao Porton-Lynch, who is now also 98 years old, is actually only a few months older than Nanammal), but her example is impressive and inspiring anyway. She easily performs any of the asanas, and even the most difficult of them look natural and at ease in her performance.
Nanammal started doing yoga at the age of 8 with her dad and his parents. "They worked in the field, and when they came home, they did yoga. Well, I went with them," says Nanammal. After Nanammal got married, she continued her yoga training with an instructor, and practiced it almost every day. 90 years of practice give a very good result, to be sure: in her entire long life, Nanammal has never been to the hospital and never took any medicine. "The secret of my health is simple - I just never stopped doing yoga, that's all," says the woman.
While most people who have lived to be 98 years old thank God that they can still move (if they can), Nanammal seems to be able to bend in any direction and take any pose, even the rather difficult Halasana pose, which is not given every yoga lover. Students come to Nanammal's home every day for classes. "I admire her flexibility," says one of her students. "She can do things that we have difficulty with even after years of training." Son Nanammal Balakrishnan also teaches yoga. "My mom can do all difficult asanas, even the very painful peacock pose," which implies keeping your body in a horizontal position, relying solely on your hands."
The physical condition of Nanammal is truly amazing. In her saree, she seems very fragile, but when she does the exercises, her movements are precise and confident, so that you involuntarily imbued with the inner strength that comes from this 98-year-old woman. "I do yoga in the evening before bed and in the morning with my students. As long as my body is tense, it remains flexible. If I let it relax, my strength will go away."
A variety of people study with Nanammal: both children of 6 years old, and well-established 60- and 70-year-old pensioners. They say that Nanammal treats them like his children. She prefers to teach them than to travel to different countries, although she receives plenty of invitations from all over the world. "Nanammal really turns down a lot of invitations, primarily because she doesn't know English," says her son. However, the woman herself considers this not such a great loss: Nanammal assures that about 600 of her students have already become yoga instructors themselves, which means that her lessons give their seeds, her teachings are spreading around the world.
The girl hiding under the nickname "Nude Yoga Girl" decided to attract people to yoga classes in a different way - she started Instagram, in which she uploads her photos during classes, but at the same time staying completely naked.
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